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Featured Photos: Erykah Badu, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA - June 8, 2008

Grammy winner Erykah Badu has a majestic stage presence and a voice that has been compared to the likes of Billie Holiday. On stage and in her lyrics, she projects a signature sound full of inner strength and pride.

Briefly: 'NSync, Bonnie Raitt, Mary J. Blige

plus: Ginuwine to open for Janet Jackson. Verve scales back. Foo Fighters benefit. Dexy's Midnight Runners reissue.

Tour by Brecker, Hancock and Hargrove salutes John Coltrane, Miles Davis

Saxophonist Michael Brecker, keyboardist Herbie Hancock and trumpeter Roy Hargrove will embark on a 28-city North American tour in September to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the births of jazz legends John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

Jazz Fest Notebook: '... Primordial New Orleans funk at its savage best'

NEW ORLEANS--The keys to enjoying the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival are mobility and diversity. The diversity part is easy--there’s more than enough of that at hand--it’s the mobility that can be tricky. Seeing everything on your checklist requires compromise, cunning and a willingness to rotate in and out of particular sets.